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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Art Ashamed Author Belief
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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

However Inevitably Inexperienced Influences
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

An anarchist Politics Impressionist
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Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics Have Systematic Organization
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No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Man Politics Honestly
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Courtesy is Love in little things.

Courtesy Love Things
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Endless amount History Tradition
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I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Think Excess Responsive youth Chilled age
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Takes Great deal History Little literature
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad

Corrupt politicians Look bad
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Military men Dumb Stupid animals
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In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

Appearance Power Important Reality
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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

Complexity Inhibits flexibility Crucial
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small

The reason University politics Small
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Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
Politicians Dogs Expectancy Bearable
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Be humble but very strategic and progressive in your mind. People recognize humility.

Be humble Strategic Progressive Mind
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I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

Charlotte Little Loved People
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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

Annoying College Come Credentials
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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Come
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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

Confuse Defeat Dreams Life
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If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.

Avenue Bridges Decided Down
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Achievement Acorn Angel Bird
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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Anything Courage Greatest Honor
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He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Accomplish Achieve Attain Greatly
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A man is literally what he thinks.
He Literally Man Thinks
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I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

About Being Best Brown
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I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit.

Bit Cut Down Like
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Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

Before Believe Changes Come
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It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

Agree Bad Based Because
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Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

About Been Daddy Election
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

Man harbors Fear Damages Personality
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Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Diversification Funds Historically Individual
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I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

Always Bit Different Grow
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Ability Convert ideas Secret Success
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The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

Ability Age Banking BankingSystem
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Literature is the question minus the answer.

Answer Literature Minus Question
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The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Creating Development Leaders Masses
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What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred

Courage Think Quality Man
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I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Angry Back Dead Developed
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The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.

Act Classes Constitution Constitutional
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There should be no doubt in your mind that we serve a great big God. He is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. Nothing is ever out of His reach and nothing is ever beyond His ability!

Ability Beyond Reach Great
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Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.

Because Both Conquest Contrary
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One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

Because Capital Characteristics Cultural
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Humbling Real Means Humility
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I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

Hyperbole ICan Little Live
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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Honor Exclusive property Political party
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We need an education that goes beyond the classroom. We need an education whose objective is not simply to qualify and certify individuals. It must be an education that aims at building capabilities in the people. We must aim at empowering people with skills.

Skills People Building Education
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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Time Political opponents Honored me Fabulous
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The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Ability Differently Gained Important
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Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

Peace Contributed Respect ability
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